different between unendurable vs unspeakable
unendurable
English
Alternative forms
- unindurable (obsolete)
Etymology
un- +? endurable.
Adjective
unendurable (comparative more unendurable, superlative most unendurable)
- Not to be endured; intolerable.
Related terms
- unendurability
- unendurableness
References
- unendurable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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unspeakable
English
Etymology
From Middle English unspekable, equivalent to un- +? speakable.
Pronunciation
Adjective
unspeakable (comparative more unspeakable, superlative most unspeakable)
- Incapable of being spoken or uttered
- Synonyms: unutterable, ineffable, inexpressible
- 1855-1882, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, book xv,
- The endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows.
- Unfit or not permitted to be spoken or described.
- 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, ch. 3,
- The miser will remember his hoard of gold, the robber his ill-gotten wealth, the angry and revengeful and merciless murderers their deeds of blood and violence in which they revelled, the impure and adulterous the unspeakable and filthy pleasures in which they delighted.
- 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, ch. 3,
- Extremely bad or objectionable.
- an unspeakable fool
- an unspeakable play
- 1926, H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider,
- Yet to my horror I saw in its eaten-away and bone-revealing outlines a leering, abhorrent travesty on the human shape; and in its mouldy, disintegrating apparel an unspeakable quality that chilled me even more.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:indescribable
Derived terms
- unspeakably
- unspeakableness
Translations
References
- unspeakable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “unspeakable” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "unspeakable" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)
- "unspeakable" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
- “unspeakable”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- "unspeakable" at Rhymezone (Datamuse, 2006).
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
Scots
Etymology
un- +? speak +? -able
Adjective
unspeakable (comparative mair unspeakable, superlative maist unspeakable)
- unspeakable
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